I had cataract surgery earlier this year. My ophthalmologist told me that all modern replacement lenses filter out the UV to protect the eyes. However, the lenses do reflect light better than natural ones giving you a bit of a "cat's eye" effect. I like to tell people that I now have bionic eyes to go along with my augmented hearing. Does this make me a cyborg?
You're absolutely right about either protecting your trademark or losing it. I remember a case, back in the '90s, where some dentists wanted to put together a convention for dentists around the world. They decided to call it "WorldCon" and were happily promoting it until they received a Cease and Desist letter. They hadn't known that the Wold Science Fiction Society owns a trademark on that name so they hadn't gotten permission to use it in advance. It's a shame, too, as they probably would have gotten permission if they'd asked, but by the time they found out, it was too late.
the moderator staff is all too willing to enforce such censorship.
Of course they are. And do you know why? They enforce the censorship because that's part of what they're getting paid to do. If they don't enforce it they lose their jobs, so they do what they're told to do, just like you'd probably do. And before you insist you'd rather be fired than do something like that I suggest you take a moment and think about how bad the job market is right now and how hard it would be to find a new job.
Plutonium spent fuel has a huge half-life, apply your logarithms to it and check for how long it has to be kept.
Yes, and that huge half-life implies that it breaks down very, very slowly. You do understand, don't you, that with the exception of Uranium, long half-lives mean a low level of radiation and those isotopes that are highly radioactive have very short half-lives? (Why Uranium is a special case will be left as an exercise for the reader.)
Most computer users aren't geeks, and they don't know how to tell if their computer's infected or not. What they do know, however, is that every single version of Microsoft Windows is full of security holes and that there are millions of viruses, trojans and other malware out there looking for computers to infect. If that weren't true, if Microsoft would clean up its act and put out an operating system that was designed from the bottom up to be secure this type of scam would be impossible.
It's not like this type of fraud hasn't happened before. Does anybody else remember Milli Vanilli? No? Good! In ten years, probably less, Terje Hellesco will be just as forgotten, for the same reasons.
I like to play Joint Operations on a LAN with some friends. There are several maps where the mission briefing tells you that if you kill even one civilian, the rest of them will go over to the insurgents and you've lost. In its own way, it's unrealistic because in Real Life(TM) it would take time for the word to get out and even then, not everybody would react that way, but it does tend to make most people careful. And, we tend to weed out those who still think it's funny to kill civilians because we're goal-oriented enough to want to finish the missions properly.
When did I call health insurance companies evil or complain about the fact that they need to make a profit to stay in business? You must have me confused with somebody who doesn't understand basic economics.
If they worked the same way the VA uses to decide what percentage of disability your hearing loss entitles you to, I'd have no complaints. A trained audiologist measures your hearing in each ear and finds the percentage of loss for each ear. Then, they go to a chart and select the row that represents the ear with the greater loss and the column with the lesser and wherever the two cross is your award. Fair, objective and impartial.
I'm so glad that I took the time to skim the comments before posting because I had the same idea. For those of you who never saw the program, here's a link to the Wikipedia article on Dead Like Me.
And my mother-in-law spent about $3K for her hearing aid, got something that basically hid in her ear, and used replaceable batteries.
I have behind-the-ear hearing aids that use replaceable batteries; they last ten to fifteen days. My mother used an older style that fit inside the ear and needed to be molded to fit. They used batteries too. In fact, I've never seen a hearing aid that needed a charger. The OP's story must be very, very old.
I wear hearing aids in both ears, as a souvenir of my time in the Navy back in '72. If my hearing loss weren't service connected I'd have had to buy my own, and there's no way I could possibly have afforded them. As it is, I got them from the VA (The biggest buyer of hearing aids in the USA.) for free. Hearing aids are overpriced because it's a seller's market and health insurance companies are willing to shell out whatever the manufacturer asks. And, of course, if your insurance doesn't cover them, you're stuck with two unpleasant choices: either you pay full retail price or you do without.
Of all the things ever predicted by science-fiction writers, did any of them predict that after we'd gotten to the moon, we'd let grass grow on the Saturn launching pads?
A friend of mine who just happens to write SF for a living likes to say that he always knew he'd live to see the first man on the Moon, but he'd never expected to see the last one.
You know that, I know that and most of the people reading Slashdot know that. However, to most people, spam is any advertising emails they don't want to get. Even if they checked a box saying, "Yes, I want to receive your advertisements by email." and even if they confirmed this by email (double opt-in) it becomes spam in their eyes the moment they decide they're not interested any more. That doesn't make them right and you wrong, of course, but a large percentage of the "spam" that most people get is stuff they opted in for at one point and are now to stupid or lazy to opt out of.
"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne."
But what says Psalms 146:3? "Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help."
It's not as "public-judged" as you might think. The largest WorldCon (LaCon II, 1984) had under 9,000 attending members, and most of them are under half that size. And, most of the members, attending or supporting, don't vote for the Hugos. It's prestigious not because it's public-judged, but because it's fan-judged, rather like a film award voted on only by movie-goers.
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I think the judges need to realize that a) they have some fanboy bias, and b) they need to correct for it.
The "judges" for the Hugo are the same people as are on the nomination committee: the members of that year's WorldCon. If you don't want Girl Genius to get the Hugo next year, buy a supporting membership, pay the voting fee and vote for somebody else. GG still might get it, but at least you'll have done what you could to affect the outcome.
So it was 'safe' right up until it wasn't? what's your point?
My point is that it was much safer than anybody thought it would be, even when it was hit by not one, but two disasters outside its design limits. And, no matter how much you weep and wail about how unsafe it is, not one, single, solitary person outside the facility has been shown to be affected by radiation leaking from Fukushima Daiichi. Not only that, the only workers affected have merely received their year's quota of radiation and can't work there for a while. Compare that to the number of people killed every year in accidents at coal fired plants.
You mean everybody is allowed to go home now?
Not yet, AFAIK, no. But just because they haven't gone home yet doesn't mean that they've been relocated permanently. And, you're saying, over and over, that just because an old reactor failed during a pair of natural disasters that were far worse than anything it was designed for (It survived the earthquake, you know, even though that was much worse than it was built to survive.) all reactors, regardless of where they're built or how they're designed are automatically unsafe. I honestly can't understand people who "reason" like that.
Actually, if you'd read the page you link to, you'd find that the musical itself dates back to 1956. The version you refer to was the later film adaptation.
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I had cataract surgery earlier this year. My ophthalmologist told me that all modern replacement lenses filter out the UV to protect the eyes. However, the lenses do reflect light better than natural ones giving you a bit of a "cat's eye" effect. I like to tell people that I now have bionic eyes to go along with my augmented hearing. Does this make me a cyborg?
My work depends on my reputation. ;-)
What kind of reputation does an Anonymous Coward have to protect?
You're absolutely right about either protecting your trademark or losing it. I remember a case, back in the '90s, where some dentists wanted to put together a convention for dentists around the world. They decided to call it "WorldCon" and were happily promoting it until they received a Cease and Desist letter. They hadn't known that the Wold Science Fiction Society owns a trademark on that name so they hadn't gotten permission to use it in advance. It's a shame, too, as they probably would have gotten permission if they'd asked, but by the time they found out, it was too late.
the moderator staff is all too willing to enforce such censorship.
Of course they are. And do you know why? They enforce the censorship because that's part of what they're getting paid to do. If they don't enforce it they lose their jobs, so they do what they're told to do, just like you'd probably do. And before you insist you'd rather be fired than do something like that I suggest you take a moment and think about how bad the job market is right now and how hard it would be to find a new job.
So what you're saying is, this scam works because it targets gullible people. Who'd of thunk it?
Plutonium spent fuel has a huge half-life, apply your logarithms to it and check for how long it has to be kept.
Yes, and that huge half-life implies that it breaks down very, very slowly. You do understand, don't you, that with the exception of Uranium, long half-lives mean a low level of radiation and those isotopes that are highly radioactive have very short half-lives? (Why Uranium is a special case will be left as an exercise for the reader.)
Most computer users aren't geeks, and they don't know how to tell if their computer's infected or not. What they do know, however, is that every single version of Microsoft Windows is full of security holes and that there are millions of viruses, trojans and other malware out there looking for computers to infect. If that weren't true, if Microsoft would clean up its act and put out an operating system that was designed from the bottom up to be secure this type of scam would be impossible.
It may well be. However, Milli Vanilli is what came to mind for me, so that's what I wrote about.
The point isn't that he edited the image, it's that he claimed credit for having taken the picture in the first place.
It's not like this type of fraud hasn't happened before. Does anybody else remember Milli Vanilli? No? Good! In ten years, probably less, Terje Hellesco will be just as forgotten, for the same reasons.
I like to play Joint Operations on a LAN with some friends. There are several maps where the mission briefing tells you that if you kill even one civilian, the rest of them will go over to the insurgents and you've lost. In its own way, it's unrealistic because in Real Life(TM) it would take time for the word to get out and even then, not everybody would react that way, but it does tend to make most people careful. And, we tend to weed out those who still think it's funny to kill civilians because we're goal-oriented enough to want to finish the missions properly.
When did I call health insurance companies evil or complain about the fact that they need to make a profit to stay in business? You must have me confused with somebody who doesn't understand basic economics.
If they worked the same way the VA uses to decide what percentage of disability your hearing loss entitles you to, I'd have no complaints. A trained audiologist measures your hearing in each ear and finds the percentage of loss for each ear. Then, they go to a chart and select the row that represents the ear with the greater loss and the column with the lesser and wherever the two cross is your award. Fair, objective and impartial.
I'm so glad that I took the time to skim the comments before posting because I had the same idea. For those of you who never saw the program, here's a link to the Wikipedia article on Dead Like Me.
And my mother-in-law spent about $3K for her hearing aid, got something that basically hid in her ear, and used replaceable batteries.
I have behind-the-ear hearing aids that use replaceable batteries; they last ten to fifteen days. My mother used an older style that fit inside the ear and needed to be molded to fit. They used batteries too. In fact, I've never seen a hearing aid that needed a charger. The OP's story must be very, very old.
I wear hearing aids in both ears, as a souvenir of my time in the Navy back in '72. If my hearing loss weren't service connected I'd have had to buy my own, and there's no way I could possibly have afforded them. As it is, I got them from the VA (The biggest buyer of hearing aids in the USA.) for free. Hearing aids are overpriced because it's a seller's market and health insurance companies are willing to shell out whatever the manufacturer asks. And, of course, if your insurance doesn't cover them, you're stuck with two unpleasant choices: either you pay full retail price or you do without.
Of all the things ever predicted by science-fiction writers, did any of them predict that after we'd gotten to the moon, we'd let grass grow on the Saturn launching pads?
A friend of mine who just happens to write SF for a living likes to say that he always knew he'd live to see the first man on the Moon, but he'd never expected to see the last one.
I'm impressed that the tracks are still quite so visible.
You do know, don't you, that there's no weather on the Moon to move the surface dust around and cover up the tracks?
You know that, I know that and most of the people reading Slashdot know that. However, to most people, spam is any advertising emails they don't want to get. Even if they checked a box saying, "Yes, I want to receive your advertisements by email." and even if they confirmed this by email (double opt-in) it becomes spam in their eyes the moment they decide they're not interested any more. That doesn't make them right and you wrong, of course, but a large percentage of the "spam" that most people get is stuff they opted in for at one point and are now to stupid or lazy to opt out of.
"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne."
But what says Psalms 146:3? "Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help."
It's not as "public-judged" as you might think. The largest WorldCon (LaCon II, 1984) had under 9,000 attending members, and most of them are under half that size. And, most of the members, attending or supporting, don't vote for the Hugos. It's prestigious not because it's public-judged, but because it's fan-judged, rather like a film award voted on only by movie-goers.
I think the judges need to realize that a) they have some fanboy bias, and b) they need to correct for it.
The "judges" for the Hugo are the same people as are on the nomination committee: the members of that year's WorldCon. If you don't want Girl Genius to get the Hugo next year, buy a supporting membership, pay the voting fee and vote for somebody else. GG still might get it, but at least you'll have done what you could to affect the outcome.
So it was 'safe' right up until it wasn't? what's your point?
My point is that it was much safer than anybody thought it would be, even when it was hit by not one, but two disasters outside its design limits. And, no matter how much you weep and wail about how unsafe it is, not one, single, solitary person outside the facility has been shown to be affected by radiation leaking from Fukushima Daiichi. Not only that, the only workers affected have merely received their year's quota of radiation and can't work there for a while. Compare that to the number of people killed every year in accidents at coal fired plants.
You mean everybody is allowed to go home now?
Not yet, AFAIK, no. But just because they haven't gone home yet doesn't mean that they've been relocated permanently. And, you're saying, over and over, that just because an old reactor failed during a pair of natural disasters that were far worse than anything it was designed for (It survived the earthquake, you know, even though that was much worse than it was built to survive.) all reactors, regardless of where they're built or how they're designed are automatically unsafe. I honestly can't understand people who "reason" like that.
Actually, if you'd read the page you link to, you'd find that the musical itself dates back to 1956. The version you refer to was the later film adaptation.